Before Pretty Please, there was RUSH. Released in 2023, it is one of the earlier Dutch Melrose and benny mayne collaborations, an early sign of a partnership that would keep producing.
Setting the template
RUSH established the formula the two would return to: propulsive, dark-tinged pop with a strong melodic center, all under the MADKID Records banner. Listen to it next to their later work and you can hear the blueprint, the same push-pull between Dutch’s atmosphere and Mayne’s energy that would define the pairing. It reads now like the first chapter of a recurring collaboration.
The value of a building block
Not every song has to be a landmark to matter. For an artist as prolific as Dutch, a track like RUSH is a building block, one of the steady releases that keep the catalog growing and the audience engaged. Those blocks are what added up to a 750-million-stream catalog; the hits get the headlines, but the consistency does the quiet work.
The team-up that started a habit.
Full timeline in the wiki.